Mark Reader pioneered interdisciplinary courses in social ecology and alternative futures during his tenure at ASU (1967–1998). His writings on humanism, democracy, energy and the environment appear in many scholarly and popular publications. His paintings hang at educational and eleemosynary institutions in Arizona and Washington.
Fran Reader has been a project director of several highly visible public programs run in conjunction with the then geography and anthropology departments at ASU and the Arizona Humanities Council, held at the Heard Museum in Phoenix and elsewhere. She has taught sociology at ASU, Gateway and Scottsdale Community Colleges.
Martha Rader came to ASU in 1975 and retired from teaching in 2011. Her teaching areas were business education, secondary education and computer education. Her interest in art originated with her father, who was a serious art collector. Since retirement, she has taken many art classes, developing her expertise in drawing and painting. Her areas of artistic interest include genre paintings of Depression–era scenes and humorous illustrations of wildlife.
William D. Raat earned his doctorate from the University of Utah, where he majored in history and was especially interested in Mexican and Latin American history and the 1910 Revolution. He likes to think of himself as he looked in this 1989 photo. He taught at State University of New York, Fredonia, for more than 30 years and is now a docent at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Doris Marie Provine earned her doctorate and juris doctorate from Cornell University. She is an Emeritus Professor on the justice studies faculty in the School of Social Transformation at ASU. Provine came to ASU from Syracuse University in 2001 to direct the then School of Justice Studies. Her scholarship focuses on race and inequality in the context of criminal justice and immigration. She is the author of “Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs,” and most recently, co–authored “Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines.”
Wolfgang F. E. Preiser ( – 2016) most recent publication was his 21st: “Multi-Tasking Spaces Toward a Dynamic Architecture Practice Paradigm.” His previous book, “Architecture beyond Criticism: Expert Judgment and Performance Evaluation,” was released in 2014. Six of his Preiser classics of 25 years ago are being reissued by the Routledge Revivals Series in the UK.
Shannon Perry (RN, PhD, FAAN) retired from San Francisco State University as an Emeritus Professor, where she taught nursing and child development for almost 17 years. She is spending her retirement writing, doing historical research in nursing, and traveling both for fun and for medical and other missions.
Feliz Ozel received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the Middle East Technical University and her doctorate in architecture from the University of Michigan. Since joining ASU, Ozel has been teaching graduate and undergraduate-level courses in the area of digital design as well as in design computation. Ozel has served as associate vice provost for Graduate Academic Programs at ASU among other administrative positions.
Robert Osterhoudt was a professor of humanistic subjects (mainly concerning sport) for 35 years. He is also an U.S. Army veteran, a Fulbright Fellow, a widely published author (most notably his two-volume “Sport as a Form of Human Fulfillment”) and a state, national and world champion medalist in the hurdles, throws and decathlon.
M. Scott Norton has served as a classroom teacher, coordinator of curriculum, associate superintendent and superintendent of schools. He served as a professor and vice chair of the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and chair of the then Department of Administration and Policy Studies at ASU, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor.